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REFRIGERATOR GAN'OR BARREL.

No. 250,107. Patented Nov. 29,1881.

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CORNELIUS A. SHERIDAN, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM E. ARMSTRONG, OF SAME PLACE.

REFRIGERATOR CAN OR BARREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,107, dated November 29, 1881. Application filed September 24, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS A. SHERI- DAN, of Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Refrigerating Oans or Barrels; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention consists of a can or barrel used for the transportation or storing of milk, oysters, &c., having an inner chamber located at one edge of the can or barrel for the reception ofice orother cooling material, with a drip cock or tap protruding from one side for the purpose of draining the water from the ice-chamber.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a lon- 2o gitudinal central section of a can or barrel. Fig. 2 represents a separate view of the inner chamber with lid attached.

The object of my invention is toprovide a refrigerating can or barrel for the purpose of z 5 transporting or storing perishable contentssuch as milk, oysters, &c.-and at the same time to give the greatest possible space for said substances. This I accomplish as follows:

A is a can or barrel, such as is usually em- 0 ployed for transportingor storing milk or oystors, 85c.

B is a segmental top; 0, air-chamber formed therein, from which depends a reservoir, D, for holding ice or other cooling material, and

3 5 closed at its top with a lid, D.

The top B is secured to the top of the can or barrel by any suitable means-as, for instance, by ears b, or by a flan ge, I), made to embrace the upper edge of the can or barrel. The

top is provided with two leaves or lids, B and B the former, B, opening into the barrel or can, and the latter, B opening into the cham her 0, from which depends the ice-reservoir.

It will be observed that the ice-reservoir is 4 5 located close to one side of the barrel on can,

so as to leave the interior space as free as possible, so as to admit of readily introducing the ordinary dipping utensils for removingthecontents.

E is a pipe from which the water may be withdrawn from the ice-chamber; and a screwcap, E, may be employed at its end, by loosening which the water may drip away slowly as formed.

A washer and nut, E serves to prevent leak- 5 age of the contents of the can from the pipeopemng.

The top with the ice-chamber may be quickly removed for cleansing by removing the cap E and nut E when all may be lifted out. The air-chamber G incloses a dead-air space, which serves as a non-conductor of heat and assists in preserving the low temperature of the ice or cooling compound.

Heretofore refrigerating milk or oyster cans have been provided with a central ice-reservoir, which, however, so filled the interior space as to impede the convenient use of dippers, &c., used in removing the contents. Such devices, moreover, have not been provided with a drip 7o mechanism for draining ofi' the water.

When the device'is employed in a barrel for shipping oysters, the top is removed and the refrigeratingdeviceisinserted,after which that portion of the head may be reinserted which corresponds with the space beneath the lid or leaf B.

What I claim is 1. A milk or oyster holder consisting of the combination, with a barrel or can, of a cover, from which depends, close to one edge, a reservoir for holding ice or a cooling compound, substantially as described.

' 2. The combination, with a barrel or can, of an interior ice-reservoir depending from a removable top, and provided at its bottom with a draw-off pipe passed through the barrel or can and removably secured thereto, substantially as described.

3. The refrigerating attachment for a barrel a or can, consisting of a top with flange and fastenings for securing it to the top edge of the receptacle, and provided with a reservoir for holding ice or cooling compound, said reservoir depending from one side only of its top, sub- 5 stantially as described.

4. The removable top, with an ice-reservoir depending from one side only, provided with an air-chamber at the top of the ice reservoir, and two separate and independent lids, one opening into the air-chamber and the other opeufor the purpose of cleansing, substantially as [0 ing into the interior of the can or barre], subdescribed. stzmtially as described. In testimony whereof I sign this specifica- 5. The connhinatiomwith theioe-reservoira-nd tion in the presence of two witnesses. 5 can or barrel of a draw-off pipe leading from w the bottom of the reservoir out through the can (JORNELIUS SHERIDAN or barrel, provided with a packing washer and Witnesses: nut and a removable screw-cap, thereby faeili- ALBERT M. HENRY, tating the ready removal of the ice-reservoir LEONARD LAURENSE. 

